Thursday, March 18, 2021

LSD-Trip Commentary From Paul Krugman; I Had to Play it Back Three Times

Paul Krugman, Fareed Zakaria and Larry Summers

This past Sunday, Paul Krugman appeared on the CNN show, "Fareed Zakaria GPS."

He was there to debate Larry Summers about the Biden $1.9 trillion spending package. Quite correctly, Summers warned about the potential price inflationary consequences of the spending.

As per usual, Krugman's commentary sounded as though he could have been an added line to the lyrics for White Rabbit. By defending the massive spending bill as non-inflationary, he could have easily been mistaken for a past adviser to Gideon Gono when he was Zimbabwe's central banker.

But the most remarkable Krugman stunner during the show was that for some odd reason he sought to deny the stagflation of the 1970s. It was like he was having an extended Joe Biden moment.

He actually said that 1970s stagflation was "more myth than reality" (stagflation is simultaneously climbing unemployment and price inflation).

The first time, I heard it, I thought I missed something. Since I record all major news talk shows on my YouTube TV for moments just like this, I replayed his comment 3 times. I did hear correctly the first time. 

Krugman did say that the 1970s stagflation was "more myth than reality."

So I went to a real authoritative economics text, the college textbook written by Krugman and his wife Robin Wells, Macroeconomics. This is what it has to say about the 1970s:

Stagflation was the scourge of the 1970s: the two deep recessions of 1973-1975 and 1979-1982 were both accompanied by soaring inflation.

And that was the case. Unemployment and inflation during the period were the highest in the more than 70 years surrounding the period. (Red lined year in the charts below).

Unemployment Rate 1950-2019


Consumer Price Inflation 1950-2020

Krugman really just makes things up. It doesn't appear to matter that it contradicts fact or what he said before. I am beginning to think he is a Leninist-opportunist, either that or he is tripping on a steady dose of real bad acid.

 -RW

4 comments:

  1. Nope. The guy is just a star whore for the banksters.

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    1. He's more of a political hack for the Dems. The star whores for the banksters are, with a very few exceptions, the politicians.

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  2. wtf, 2 trillion not a prob but 4? oh then krugman is concerned lol

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  3. Krugman has his column and his appearances on TV and so forth to calm or instill fear in the masses and tell them why they need to obey and sacrifice to the ruling class. To advance the ruling class agenda. That's his job. That's what he gets paid to do.

    Climate scientists work very hard to deny the hot weather of the 1930s and medieval warm period, and so on. They do this because that's what they are paid to do in order to advance the agenda of their sponsors. That's what Krugman does but for finance.

    Fauci, same deal, different field.

    Krugman's completely sane and not dumb, he just makes it all up, lies, manipulates data, and so on as he needs it to get the job he's supposed to do done.

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